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Making Cinnabar Red Pigment — Grinding Mercury Sulfide into the Most Vivid Red of the Ancient World
by Charlie
Ancient
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Making Dammar Varnish — The Clear Picture Varnish for Oil Paintings
by Charlie
Middle Ages
89
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4
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Making Green Earth Pigment (Terra Verte) — The Soft Green of Celadonite and Glauconite
by Charlie
Ancient
50
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6
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Making Malachite Green Pigment — Grinding the Copper Mineral into Painter's Green
by Charlie
Ancient
57
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9
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Making Prussian Blue — The First Modern Synthetic Pigment (Berlin, 1704)
by Charlie
Modern
54
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7
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Hazardous
Making Smalt — Grinding Cobalt Blue Glass into the Renaissance Painter's Blue Pigment
by Charlie
Middle Ages
31
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6
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Making Traditional Gesso — The White Ground That Prepared Every Panel Painting in History
by Charlie
Middle Ages
32
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8
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Making Vine Black Pigment — Charring Grape Vines into the Cool Blue-Black of Classical Painters
by Charlie
Ancient
31
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2
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Water Gilding with Gold Leaf — Applying Gold to Gesso and Bole for a Mirror Finish
by Charlie
Ancient
22
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3
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Making Casein Paint from Milk and Lime — The Ancient Protein-Based Wall Paint
by Charlie
Ancient
102
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4
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Making Chalk White Pigment (Whiting) — Grinding and Levigating Natural Chalk
by Charlie
Prehistoric
47
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5
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Making Encaustic Paint — The Hot Beeswax Medium of Ancient Greek and Egyptian Painters
by Charlie
Ancient
35
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3
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Making Hide Glue Distemper — The Traditional Ceiling and Wall Paint of Europe
by Charlie
Middle Ages
43
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4
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Making a Lake Pigment from Plant Dye — Precipitating Soluble Colour onto an Insoluble Substrate
by Charlie
Ancient
48
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6
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Making Lampblack Pigment — Collecting Carbon Soot from a Burning Flame
by Charlie
Prehistoric
83
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6
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Making Lime Wash — The Oldest and Simplest Wall Paint in the World
by Charlie
Prehistoric
84
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2
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Making Red Ochre by Calcining Yellow Ochre — The Oldest Deliberate Pigment Transformation
by Charlie
Prehistoric
69
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7
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Making Ultramarine from Lapis Lazuli — Extracting the Most Precious Pigment in History
by Charlie
Middle Ages
46
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6
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Making Verdigris — The Copper Acetate Green of Medieval Painters
by Charlie
Ancient
52
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7
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Dyeing Warm Brown with Coffee — The Universal Kitchen-Cupboard Dye
by Tex
Modern
54
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1
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